TIME [Future Bad]

Four

"So Alex, you guys have time?" helen said as she bribed the rice into her mouth. The kid in the trunk was taken over by Kelly.

"No Helen. We are still developing it. They are mistakes. We should have gone to their time. It's not those who come into our time" Alex explained. Helen nodded in understanding.

"So, can you petrify us back to our time?" Ask Oliv.

"We're working on a fix for the time machine. So, you don't have to worry" Alex replied calmly.

It certainly could not make Oliv and his friends feel calm. At least a little relief.

"Alex, will you promise me?" said Risa.

"Yes, what is it?"

"Please promise to bring us back to our time" Risa said as she looked into Alex's eyes. His eyes are a little teary.

"Yes, I promise. I'll do everything" said Alex steadily.

"Oh, yeah Helen. By the way he's your great-grandfather-in-law. I know he's a kid, but it's true" Alex introduced Rey.

"Oh, Grandpa. Did I treat you well?" Helen approached Rey. "Do you want to add chicken?" spliced her.

"No, no need. You just sit down, and eat!" Rey said a little snobbish. "And don't call me grandpa."

"All right, cake. Uh, I mean what's your name?"

"Rey. Call me Rey!" Said Rey. The sound of a baby crying along with Rey's words.

"Alright Rey. I take care of my son. Take it easy, I will continue eating. You guys, go on. Eat a lot to be healthy.

"By the way your room is upstairs. There was only one empty room left. Alex will arrange it. May you be at home!" Helen said. He left the dining room and headed to the TV room where Kelly was.

Alex was pressing something in his ear. He then left the dining room.

"Where are my great-grandchildren?" said Rey.

"Where do I know," Alya replied. They also continued eating.

The fried chicken on the table is one piece left. Risa who saw him wanted to take it. It just so happened that he had not taken the chicken. He just ate vegetable soup. When his hand reached the top of the chicken, Rey's hand was there. Risa immediately hit Rey's hand.

"Ish, got me!" said Risa while pulling the Chicken from the plate.

"Huh? Whahuh? I didn't hear wrong? It's that, who bought my great-grandson, who cooked my daughter-in-law. Then it's mine! I have no right to eat at my house!" Rey said arrogantly.

"Bodo very! Then your daughter-in-law, 'would give to me too, not to lo doang!" risa said she would not lose. Rey wants to respond, but Alex first steals the show.

"Everything, I have bad news" Alex said with a face that looked so worried.

"What's Alex talking about?" Alya asked after finishing her chewing. Rey and Risa have no quarrel. They looked at Alex.

"Your friends, trapped in the dimension of time" Alex said as he occupied himself.

"You mean?" said Rey.

"So, there's a place that connects all the time in the universe. We call it the time dimension. In the time dimension there is one place — that we do not know where there are— that do not have time.

So there's no life there. There's only space without time" Alex paused.

"Your friends are stuck there. We detected heat in space without that time. That is, there is life in that space. And we're assuming it's your friend."

"So?"

"Your friends are in danger. Your friend's time before it was completely gone was twenty-four hours, and now it's less than twenty hours left."

"Are you sure it's our friend?"

"Yes" Alex gulped down his drink.

They thought a little about digesting everything. Before being here, they were at Alya's house doing group chores. There are seven people. Alya, Rey, Oliv, Risa, Gabriel, Katrin, and Kevin.

They got here without Katrin, Gabriel, and Kevin. In retrospect, maybe they could not be interested by the hole of that time —by running out of the room. However, they saw with their own eyes, they clasped each other's hands. They also remembered that they had both entered the pit that time

"Rey, I suddenly don't feel sorry for eating. Nih, make it aja," said Risa while thrusting a plate filled with fried chicken to Rey.

"Yeah! Thanks, Ris!" said Rey while taking the fried chicken.

Alya and Oliv looked at Rey in astonishment. Risa was just silent thinking about what would happen to Gabriel.

"Kok, you can be that calm, anyway?" said Alya.

"Rilex. No need to worry about that. If we are worried we cannot even think. Mending us calm down, we think of a way to get them to digelamingin," Rey said as she tore up the chicken and ate it.

Everyone nodded. They agree with what Rey said.

Dinner is over. Oliv took the initiative to wash the dishes. However, he did not find a sink to wash the dishes there.

"Alex, doesn't your house have a sink to wash dishes?" ask Oliv.

"You don't have to do the dishes in this day and age, Oliv. Just put those plates on the table. The table can clean the dishes by itself. You think, what's the point of the table being made with space inside?" Alex answered without looking. He was watching the news on his glasses.

"Oh, I don't know," Oliv returned the dishes he had brought back to his desk. Oliv looked at the dining table. It turns out that the table has space at the bottom.

"I'm sorry for not telling you before" Alex said as he took off his glasses and looked at Oliv.

"No problem."

[¹]

Oliv broke his body after he finished washing his face, hands, feet and brushing his teeth. He looked up at the sky.

Oliv, Alya, Risa, and Rey sleep in one room. This room is quite spacious. Alex makes it two, one room for Rey and the other for the girls.

The roof is covered in transparent glass, but the inside is not visible from the outside.

Oliv looked up at the sky. He remembered sleeping in the streets, until an angel took them to a simple house.

Oliv misses his family. Missing his brother, missing his father. His father's burly arms never let Oliv and his sister starve.

From a long time ago, his father was willing not to eat for them. His father who always managed to entertain and make Oliv back up.

Now, his life is better. I have my own home and can go to school. However, he passed the time, and had to do it once more. Can he come back? Can he see his father smiling again?

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